VANCOUVER, British Columbia The Penguins had a chance to make history on the road trip that ended Saturday night in Western Canada.
They had to settle for making progress.
Just how much might not be clear for a while.
Had they defeated the Canucks, the...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia Make no mistake: The Pittsburgh Penguins would love to face Vancouver in the Stanley Cup final.
Mostly because they would love to face anybody including the Montreal Canadiens of the late 1970s in the Stanley Cup final.
But...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia The San Jose Sharks came up with their best effort of the week and finally solved Vancouver goalie Ryan Miller, scoring three goals in the first two periods on the way to a 5-1 win over the Canucks on Thursday at Rogers Arena....

VANCOUVER The finish wasn't as simple as the Wild would have liked, but Devan Dubnyk and the Wild suddenly have something cooking.
During a Super Bowl Sunday matinee, the Wild's recently acquired goaltender lifted the Wild to a rare three-game Western...

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Nick Bonino has provided important intel to the Vancouver Canucks this season, contributing to scouting reports that have helped his new team get four points in three games against his ex-team, NHL points leader Anaheim.
“The first game, [assistant coach] Doug Lidster was doing the pre-scout, so he came to me and [former Ducks defenseman Luca] Sbisa and had us put together a little list of things -- keys to beating them,” Bonino said Tuesday after his team’s morning skate at Rogers...

Are you ready to retro?
New Kids on the Block is going out on tour this spring. With TLC and Nelly.
And they're coming to Norfolk Scope.
The June 9 date at Scope was part of a lengthy itinerary announced this morning by the promoter LiveNation for a tour being billed as "The Main Event." Ticket prices haven't been announced, but they will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31.
Here is the full tour:
Friday, May 1 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Events Center
Saturday, May 2 Anaheim, CA...

You had to wonder, on this day of resetting, if Kings Coach Darryl Sutter was a New Year’s resolution kind of guy.
Nope.
It was even better.
“Bucket list, for sure,” he said after Thursday’s morning skate here at Rogers Arena. “That’s what we all should do. Because when you see everything that’s going on, you need that bucket list.”
Earlier on this trip, the Kings had games in Alberta, at Calgary and Edmonton. When they were in Edmonton on Tuesday,...

Road struggles are so last year, right?
The Kings started 2015 on the right note, eventually, and there were plenty of takeaways after they rallied from a late 2-1 deficit to win, 3-2, at Vancouver's Rogers Arena, outshooting the Canucks, 40-16.
Importance of the power play
Special teams helped the Kings get a hard-fought point in Edmonton on Tuesday (a shootout loss), and the power play paved the way to the comeback on Thursday. Justin Williams tied it, 2-2, with his power-play goal with 2:07...

Despite a drawn-out breakup that took nearly two years before it ended in a messy divorce, when Roberto Luongo steps on the ice Thursday night in Vancouver's Rogers Arena for the first time since being traded to the Panthers last March, he will most likely hear chants of, "Lou, Lou, Lou'' and not a cacophony of "Boo, boo, boo,'' from grateful Canucks fans.
After all, with Luongo guarding their cage from 2006-14, the Canucks enjoyed the most successful seven-year run in franchise history, which...